Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 80 79
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,064 1,733 2,304
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.82% 3.50% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 3.95% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,414 821 1,384
10th Percentile £45,456 £51,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82,630 43,847 63,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.77% 88.67% 80.95%
Number of salaries quoted 57,445 24,695 36,468
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 14 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 1,782 £75,000 - 1,955
UK excluding London -25 1,134 £67,500 -3.57% 887
Work from Home -19 844 £67,500 -3.57% 2,336
London -15 782 £85,000 +6.25% 1,300
North of England -48 364 £75,000 +7.14% 260
South East +35 322 £65,000 -7.14% 180
North West -59 194 £78,750 +12.50% 142
South West -17 137 £63,750 +6.25% 97
Midlands -59 107 £69,310 -0.99% 88
North East +17 94 £65,000 +49.86% 39
West Midlands -34 77 £80,000 +14.29% 55
Yorkshire +7 76 £69,310 -0.99% 82
Northern Ireland -23 70 £60,000 +33.33% 56
Wales -21 66 £62,500 +20.19% 14
East of England -45 36 £60,100 -3.84% 74
Scotland -50 36 £60,000 -23.23% 123
East Midlands -56 30 £65,000 - 32
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.08%) Confluence
2 30 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.87%) Apache
4 15 (0.73%) CMS
5 13 (0.63%) IIS
6 11 (0.53%) Camunda
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) JBoss
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) DNN
12 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.097%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.048%) Eikon
4 1 (0.048%) RMDS
4 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,050 (50.87%) AWS
2 870 (42.15%) Azure
3 317 (15.36%) GCP
4 263 (12.74%) Serverless
5 259 (12.55%) GitHub
6 193 (9.35%) SaaS
7 179 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 149 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 121 (5.86%) Amazon S3
10 120 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
11 119 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
12 102 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
13 93 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 88 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
15 76 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
16 67 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
18 58 (2.81%) Azure AKS
19 50 (2.42%) PaaS
20 49 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.31%) Broadband
2 21 (1.02%) Network Security
3 13 (0.63%) DMARC
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
4 12 (0.58%) MQTT
5 10 (0.48%) HTTP
6 9 (0.44%) AMQP
7 8 (0.39%) VPN
8 7 (0.34%) Internet
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
9 6 (0.29%) RFID
10 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.15%) DHCP
11 3 (0.15%) Firewall
11 3 (0.15%) LTE
11 3 (0.15%) NAS
11 3 (0.15%) SAN
11 3 (0.15%) SSL
12 1 (0.048%) Wireless
12 1 (0.048%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 307 (14.87%) MongoDB
2 224 (10.85%) PostgreSQL
3 199 (9.64%) NoSQL
4 164 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.36%) Elasticsearch
6 110 (5.33%) SQL Server
7 109 (5.28%) MySQL
8 92 (4.46%) Relational Database
9 66 (3.20%) Redis
10 58 (2.81%) DynamoDB
11 42 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
12 32 (1.55%) Big Data
13 18 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 15 (0.73%) Pinecone
14 15 (0.73%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.58%) Db2
15 12 (0.58%) DTS
16 9 (0.44%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 285 (13.81%) Git
2 185 (8.96%) GitLab
3 161 (7.80%) Jenkins
4 65 (3.15%) JIRA
5 64 (3.10%) JUnit
6 62 (3.00%) TeamCity
7 53 (2.57%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.99%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.79%) Mockito
10 36 (1.74%) Maven
11 31 (1.50%) Claude Code
12 26 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.16%) Selenium
14 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 17 (0.82%) Spock
15 14 (0.68%) JMeter
15 14 (0.68%) Postman
16 13 (0.63%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.58%) Vite
18 9 (0.44%) CircleCI
General
1 529 (25.63%) Finance
2 412 (19.96%) Social Skills
3 230 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 191 (9.25%) Banking
5 160 (7.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 154 (7.46%) Law
7 143 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
8 120 (5.81%) Retail
9 87 (4.22%) Legal
10 79 (3.83%) Financial Institution
11 60 (2.91%) Marketing
12 57 (2.76%) Back Office
13 41 (1.99%) Aerospace
14 35 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.45%) Games
16 28 (1.36%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.87%) Advertising
18 17 (0.82%) Front Office
19 12 (0.58%) Aviation
20 11 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 758 (36.72%) Developer
2 497 (24.08%) Senior
3 370 (17.93%) Software Engineer
4 357 (17.30%) Lead
5 317 (15.36%) Architect
6 198 (9.59%) .NET Developer
7 187 (9.06%) Senior Developer
8 163 (7.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 162 (7.85%) Java Developer
10 133 (6.44%) Java Engineer
11 127 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 124 (6.01%) Senior Software Engineer
13 109 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
14 102 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
15 80 (3.88%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.83%) Lead Software Engineer
17 72 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
18 71 (3.44%) Lead Developer
19 66 (3.20%) Technical Leader
20 59 (2.86%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (25.78%) .NET
2 448 (21.71%) React
3 428 (20.74%) Node.js
4 382 (18.51%) Terraform
5 372 (18.02%) Spring
6 337 (16.33%) Spring Boot
7 306 (14.83%) RESTful
8 283 (13.71%) REST
9 279 (13.52%) Kafka
10 240 (11.63%) ASP.NET
11 225 (10.90%) AngularJS
12 217 (10.51%) .NET Core
13 209 (10.13%) Vue
14 194 (9.40%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.86%) Blazor
16 101 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 93 (4.51%) HTML
18 89 (4.31%) CSS
19 86 (4.17%) .NET Framework
20 85 (4.12%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 658 (31.88%) Cloud Native
2 373 (18.07%) Distributed Systems
3 159 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 113 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
5 107 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (3.83%) Onboarding
7 54 (2.62%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.52%) AI Agents
9 47 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
9 47 (2.28%) Virtual Team
10 41 (1.99%) e-Learning
10 41 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
12 24 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
13 21 (1.02%) Management Information System
14 20 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
14 20 (0.97%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 19 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 140 (6.78%) Linux
2 48 (2.33%) Windows
3 27 (1.31%) CentOS
3 27 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (0.97%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.39%) Android
6 8 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.29%) AIX
7 6 (0.29%) Debian
7 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,096 (53.10%) CI/CD
2 992 (48.06%) Agile
3 738 (35.76%) Software Engineering
4 721 (34.93%) DevOps
5 569 (27.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 538 (26.07%) Mentoring
7 475 (23.01%) Event-Driven
8 449 (21.75%) AI
9 432 (20.93%) Test Automation
10 421 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 411 (19.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 388 (18.80%) Containerisation
13 370 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
14 312 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
15 294 (14.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 286 (13.86%) Scrum
17 251 (12.16%) Architectural Patterns
18 238 (11.53%) Observability
19 236 (11.43%) TDD
20 223 (10.80%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 733 (35.51%) Java
2 569 (27.57%) C#
3 502 (24.32%) SQL
4 455 (22.04%) JavaScript
5 433 (20.98%) Python
6 400 (19.38%) TypeScript
7 86 (4.17%) Go
8 58 (2.81%) Ruby
9 45 (2.18%) C++
10 38 (1.84%) Bash
11 30 (1.45%) PHP
12 26 (1.26%) PowerShell
13 25 (1.21%) Bicep
14 24 (1.16%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.07%) Rust
16 21 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 20 (0.97%) Scala
18 16 (0.78%) C
18 16 (0.78%) Groovy
19 14 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 324 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 224 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 171 (8.28%) Degree
4 91 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 81 (3.92%) AWS Certification
6 78 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 31 (1.50%) CISSP
9 30 (1.45%) Azure Certification
10 19 (0.92%) CISM
11 18 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
13 10 (0.48%) MBA
14 8 (0.39%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.39%) PhD
15 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
17 4 (0.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.76%) QA
2 95 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.79%) WCAG
4 34 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (1.36%) GDPR
6 19 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 19 (0.92%) NIST
7 18 (0.87%) NCSC
8 11 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.44%) GRC
10 9 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 6 (0.29%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 570 (27.62%) Docker
2 40 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.44%) NDS
4 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.048%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 627 (30.38%) Kubernetes
2 102 (4.94%) Ansible
2 102 (4.94%) Grafana
3 50 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 27 (1.31%) Argo
4 27 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (0.97%) Puppet
6 16 (0.78%) Kibana
7 9 (0.44%) Cilium
8 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.24%) Podman
10 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.19%) Packer
11 3 (0.15%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.097%) Rancher
13 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.048%) Consul
13 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
13 1 (0.048%) logstash
13 1 (0.048%) MIIS
Vendors
1 333 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 98 (4.75%) Google
3 73 (3.54%) Oracle
4 45 (2.18%) Splunk
5 42 (2.03%) OpenAI
6 28 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 28 (1.36%) Okta
7 26 (1.26%) IBM
8 25 (1.21%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.16%) AppDynamics
10 22 (1.07%) Databricks
11 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
12 14 (0.68%) Adobe
12 14 (0.68%) SAP
13 13 (0.63%) OpenText
13 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.58%) CyberArk
14 12 (0.58%) Mistral
15 11 (0.53%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.53%) ServiceNow